Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.